Peter, On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, peter karlsson wrote:
> > Since this is the Debian changelog rather than an upstream changelog, the > > majority of changes noted are specific to the shared debian directory, of > > which there is precisely one for any set of binary packages that are built > > from a single source package. > Well, first of all, since I am both the "upstream" developer and Debian > maintainer of the package, I release it without tacking on a "-1" at the > end, which makes the package "native". This also means that the Debian > changelog lists the relevant changes between the versions (the source > changelog lists changes on a file by file basis and is useless to an > end-user). Since the two binary packages generated deviate slightly in the > set of features added to each new versions, I want to differentiate thes log > messages of these two packages. Do you ever intend to release this software as a tarball for use outside of Debian? If so, the standard caveat applies that making this a "native" package means you will have to increment the version number of the software every time there's a correction to be made in the Debian packaging, which can be confusing to non-Debian users and a hassle for you. Since the vast majority of packages in Debian are not native, the changelog handling seems to be designed for the case where debian/changelog is used only for tracking changes to the Debian packaging itself. I suspect you'll find that other uses of this file would not be well-supported by the makers of the related Debian packaging tools. Regards, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
